"Obviously, Lamorlock does have good teeth."

In the spacious reception room, the old man who still looked like Mr. Xie Xun, even though his long flowing golden hair had turned gray, smiled, then suddenly stooped up and coughed violently.

"Ah... you! Are you okay?"

[Yali Bao] The most outstanding reporter among the younger generation, the dwarf girl who just completed an exclusive interview with [Sly Fox] Barty Arthur two months ago immediately stood up in a panic, jumped off the sofa and trotted all the way to the old man's side.

While gently stroking the latter's thin back, he turned to the beautiful middle-aged woman who was drying clothes on the balcony and shouted: "Aunt Hess! Aunt Hess! Mr. Richard..."

"Can't die."

The woman with short brown hair, named Hess, turned her head and glanced at Richard, who looked uncomfortable. Then she continued to dry the clothes in her hands and said without looking back: "It's an old habit, please let go."

Just let him cough for a while, but if it takes more than two minutes..."

"If it takes more than two minutes!"

The dwarf girl named Miranda Shorthand looked at Richard with a painful expression in panic, and asked in a panic: "What should I do!"

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't do anything."

The woman with a soft appearance, sharp eyes, and a few light lines in the center of her forehead shrugged and chuckled: "But if you are too noisy, you can aim at his lower abdomen and give him an uppercut."

Miranda: "..."

Richard: "..."

Finally, after coughing for about ninety seconds, Richard Lane sat up straight again. While signaling the kind girl next to him to go back and sit down, he picked up half a glass of cocktail on the table and drank it down in one gulp. He chuckled.

: "Don't worry, kid, it's just like He...er, I mean like what my wife just said, it's just a common old problem, it won't kill you."

Miranda twitched the corner of her mouth and smiled awkwardly: "Ah haha... Well, these words coming from the mouth of you, an epic-level Dawn Priest, are really very convincing."

"Magic is not omnipotent, little girl."

Richard shook his head, leaned lazily on the back of the sofa, and said calmly: "Otherwise, there would be no pain, disease or even death in this world... But death itself is a part of life.

A link, without which life is incomplete, and compared to the word 'end', I think death is a great adventure, so even if it may happen to me at any time, I don't mind at all.

…”

"If you keep talking nonsense to others, you won't be able to accept interviews properly."

Hess on the balcony interrupted his husband coldly, pinched his knuckles, and said in an extremely 'gentle' voice: "I will send you off to that great adventure now."

Richard and Miranda shrank at the same time.

"Hey, little girl."

Richard, who was almost leaning on the table, blinked and whispered to the young reporter in front of him: "You also think that woman is unreasonable, right?"

"No, I think Madam loves you very much."

Miranda shook her head, and then asked in a lower voice: "So later, do I want to ask you about the first time you met the Military God in Academy City..."

"I'm sorry, kid, I just lied to you."

Richard shuddered and gritted his teeth in an imperceptible voice: "I actually don't really want to go on that great adventure too early. Barty is not dead yet. If I leave first, that old boy will laugh at me."

of."

Miranda smiled sweetly: "What about our next interview?"

Richard immediately expressed his position: "I will tell you everything I know, and I will tell you everything I know."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Ever since, after this joke-like episode, the interview that had just been paused resumed——

"I feel like I've worked really hard."

Richard poured himself another cocktail. While trying to ignore the cold gaze from the balcony, he smiled bitterly and shook his head: "As you know, I lasted until the sixtieth year left by Lamorlock."

One command card, and eventually the whole thing collapsed."

Miranda also sighed softly and said with regret: "I have also heard about that incident. It is said that Lamorlock left a total of sixty-six command cards at that time. If you persist a little longer, you can survive to the end.

if……"

"it's useless."

Richard raised his hand to interrupt the reporter girl, shook his head and said: "Haven't you ever thought about why Lamorlock only left sixty-six command cards back then, instead of sixty-seven, sixty-eight, and sixty-nine?

Zhang? Haha...Okay, listen to me first, kid, the reason couldn't be simpler, that is, he knows very well that to deal with Richard Lane, sixty-six command cards are enough."

Mirada frowned and said with some dissatisfaction: "But you were only a little bit away from..."

"I was just shy of meeting Lamorlock's highest expectations of me."

Richard made a face, spread his hands and said, "Believe me, little girl, I know much better than you about that game, Lamorlock, or the gap in ability between us."

Miranda also made a face, helplessly wrote a few lines on the notebook with the quill pen in her hand, frowned and said: "Is that La Morlock... really that strong?"

"I've read the textbooks for your generation."

Richard chuckled, folded his legs and settled on the sofa in a more comfortable position, and smiled: "To be honest, although those things can really let everyone know how united the coalition forces were at that time, they can also let us...

The so-called heroes have become more three-dimensional, but perhaps because of the limited space, those books really understated our enemies."

Miranda looked at Richard with some astonishment: "An understatement?"

"Yes, an understatement."

Richard nodded and said calmly: "I don't know much about other demon generals. Of course, I must know better than you. But at least among the records about Lamorlock, the contents in the textbook are really a bit too light.

Well, even though the writers didn’t mean anything, no matter how bloody the numbers are, they are just numbers after all..."

Miranda lowered her face and said quietly: "But even if it's just a number, I can feel the harm those people have done to the world."

"But that's not intuitive, kid."

Richard looked at the girl in front of him kindly, who had not experienced that era, and said softly: "That's why you can ask the question just now, 'Is that La Morlock really that powerful?', let's put it this way, girl,

There are only two reasons why Barty and I were able to sit on the command seat and earn ourselves the reputations of [Iron Lion] and [Sly Fox] with our own hands."

Miranda's eyes widened, and while she was writing quickly on the parchment with a quill in a manner that could be called crazy, she asked emotionally: "What's the reason?"

"The first reason is that Lamorlock has never targeted us. Most of the time, the opponents who deal directly with me and Barty are the senior cadres of the Pardon Corps. Although those people are also difficult to deal with, they are

After all, it’s much easier to deal with than their chief commander.”

Richard pinched his eyebrows, took another sip of wine, and took a long breath: "So even if they do follow Lamorlock's order, we won't fight too hard, and occasionally we can even take advantage of it.

It's cheap, and when Lamorlock directly commands them..."

Miranda did not ask further questions, but held her breath and stared intently at Richard's thin, old but majestic face that would have fascinated her if he were decades younger.

"I'm mainly dealing with our Chief of General Staff and His Majesty the God of War."

Richard turned his head and looked out the window. Those bright eyes seemed to have traveled through time and space, returning to the war that almost swept the entire continent: "And even if the storm stirred up by those [wings] is enough to destroy everything,

, in front of that pair of [gods and demons], it’s hard to get an advantage.”

Miranda laughed, nodded vigorously and said: "You are right. Anyway, I really can't imagine what the situation would be like if we didn't have [Military God] and [Witch] here."

"There is only one result, and we will be finished long ago."

Richard shrugged and said with a smile: "It's not just Hei Fan and Theresa. Go look at the "Roster of the Grand Alliance Army" displayed in the first row of bookshelves in every library. Any one of them is missing.

People, we may not even be able to face this day."

Miranda nodded vigorously and then urged: "What about the second reason? Didn't you just say that there are two reasons that allowed you and Grandpa Barty to achieve those brilliant achievements."

"The second reason..."

Richard twitched the corner of his mouth and murmured with complicated eyes: "Then we can't afford to die."

Miranda obviously failed to guess the answer. She was stunned at that time. After a while, she hesitated and asked: "What do you mean when you say you can't afford to die?"

"literal meaning."

Richard drank the cocktail in front of him and said with a flushed face: "Under the circumstances at that time, death was actually a kind of relief, especially for us commanders who are burdened with the lives of countless comrades. Compared with traveling through

In those purgatory-like battlefields, compared to struggling in the giant web woven by Lamorlock, living is far easier than dying."

Miranda opened her mouth and seemed to say something else, but was interrupted by Richard raising his hand.

"Let's continue talking about that game, my first confrontation with Lamorlock."

Richard rubbed the tip of his red nose and said gently: "The sixty-six command cards of the young [Iron Lion] and Lamorlock, haha, thinking about it now still feels like yesterday."

Miranda also thoughtfully did not force Richard to recall the battle that would never make him feel good. She also turned the topic back to the time when everyone was young before the disaster struck, and said with a smile: "Grandpa Barty before

As I said, the finals of the [Comprehensive Knight Fighting Competition] team battle just seems like yesterday."

"Then the old boy really doesn't want to lose his face at all!"

Richard became anxious at that time and said angrily: "He was tricked to death by Hei Fan! I was tricked to death by Lamo Locke! Can these two things be the same!? And in the end, he won the championship for nothing!

He had the nerve to say it!"

Miranda stuck out her tongue playfully: "Hey..."

"Oh, let's not mention that bitch fox."
To be continued...